Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle is a so-so adventure game that tries to be fun and funny but fails horribly.

User Rating: 5.3 | Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle PC
I love adventure games, Grim Fandango and Monkey Island are two of my all time favourite games. So when I saw this game I got interested because the game has great graphics and it looks pretty cool. So how could I go wrong right? Well, it did for the most part.

The story is pretty scattered all over the place, Gina disappears somewhere and it's up to Brian to find her. But Brian doesn't really seem to care alot, because he cheats on her. What is that about? He claims he loves her, and then just forgets about her and goes for a quickie with some other girl?
Later on there's some conspiracy about aliens coming to earth or something, it's pretty ridiculous.

The dialogue and script is terrible, but you have to listen to it all the time. The game desperately tries to be funny, but fails at every single turn.
The jokes are just so lame and stupid that it's just not funny.
Most of the dialogue of the characters are just useless nonsense or dull backstory of their past. So you'll most likely just skip past every line, and you might just miss some useful information you'd have to sit through 50 lines of blabber to hear. The voice-acting is pretty horrible too, just like the music. UGH, somebody make it stop.

The characters of the game are lame and stereotypical, it goes from whiny teenagers to army officers with a cigar and an eyepatch. And they all have terrible voice-acting and dialogue.

The puzzles are straight-forward, but they mostly make sense.
It's sometimes very weird that you try to combine two items or something and you can't but it's VERY obvious that you DO can. But you can only do it after you've spoken to someone or something, it's ridiculous.
And sometimes you need an item you just don't know where it is, you've checked everywhere, but what you don't know is that the item you're looking for is a place you've already checked before. He just goes through the stuff and says "Hmm, there's a pretty useful item here, but I don't want it... yet.".
Are you kidding me!? Just pick up the damn item so I can use it later!

The game also helps you out alot, more than necessary. Sometimes you've figured out what to do, like say combine two items, and he says "Yeah! Good idea!!!" and combines them, and then he just takes control and says what you're supposed to do when you could've just figured it out yourself.

I haven't beaten the game yet, so I don't know for how long you're supposed to suffer through this nonsense game. I'll probably pick it up sometime in the future just to complete it, but I've had enough of this for a while.
The game does have an undeniable charm to it, because it looks great, the developers obviously spent alot of time making it look good, but not enough time to make it an enjoyable game.

There's a solid adventure game buried in there, but the developers just tapped the surface of what it could've been. If the characters were less stereotypical, and the dialogue made sense, was funny and was alot shorter, with puzzles that you can figure out without wandering around for an hour, and some good voice-acting, this could've been a good game.
But unfortunately it's the opposite, so... don't play this game.